Morris County - Florham Park - “SAVING THE GREAT SWAMP -- The Battle to Defeat the Jetport”

at 7:00pm in the Akhoury Room of the Florham Park Library, 107 Ridgedale Avenue; 973-377-2694

Saving the Great Swamp by Scott Morris and Larry Fast. 

“SAVING THE GREAT SWAMP -- The Battle to Defeat the Jetport”

Florham Park Public Library
The film’s makers, Scott Morris and Larry Fast will be on hand to introduce the film. After the showing, they will answer questions and discuss making the film.

In 1959, a sparsely populated section of Northern New Jersey was chosen as the site for a new airport. It was to be a massive jetport, covering over 10,000 acres, destroying a major wetland.

It was a vision of progress, promoted by the power brokers of the day: government agencies, industry, and politicians. What they didn’t count on was the opposition of those whose lifestyles would have been wiped out and who had their own definition of progress.

This is the story of a nine-year fight to protect and preserve the Great Swamp that began in a local high school and ended up in the United States Congress.

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